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One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

Diane Setterfield

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Diane Setterfield
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 22
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Tragedy alters everything.
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Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.
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The tears I gratified him with were fake ones. Ones that set off my green eyes the way diamonds set off emeralds. And it worked. If you dazzled a man with green eyes, he will be so hypnotized that he won’t notice there is someone inside the eyes spying on him. – Vida Winters Page 268
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